Mrtraveler01 739 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 I was watching clips of KGO in San Francisco and I noticed that they got a new graphics package. It's something that we were talking about in a thread a while back but I couldn't find it. In my opinion these new graphics aren't as good as their old ones were. In fact, I think they look like a really cheap knockoff of WLS. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video
kjohnson 17 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 It's some sort of weird hybrid between WLS and their old graphics. It doesn't work. Classic case of leaving well enough alone. Why don't they just use WLS's graphics? It would be a better move than what they've got right now. I wonder why they made the change.
News24/7 3 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 This is quite old news, they've been using this package since january
Mrtraveler01 739 Posted July 2, 2009 Author Posted July 2, 2009 This is quite old news' date=' they've been using this package since january[/quote'] Sorry I didn't know. This is the first time I saw them, I remember a forum a while back where we rumored that they would change their graphics but we never found out about it when we did. I still think they look cheap for a market like SF and in my opinion WLS's graphics don't work in SF especially a knockoff of them like this.
FirstNews8 13 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 Wow, what a horrible rip-off of WLS's Hothaus grfx.
News24/7 3 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 I should cap some more, thanks for posting my cap^
Ntropolis 600 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 Gotta be GO... looks like a WABC-WTVG/WWSB hybrid.
caliwxdude 255 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 Gotta be GO... looks like a WABC-WTVG/WWSB hybrid. I'm 99.9% sure this was an in-house job. It's definitely not Giant Octopus, that's for sure.
Jess 1115 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 It's elements from the WLS package combined with elements from the WABC package with some KABC thrown in for spice. I have to ask - is that Al Vanik doing the voiceover?
DMA 136 Posted July 7, 2009 Posted July 7, 2009 I think sometimes stations only get the opens and fullscreens done professionally...the open id alot like WWSB, I wouldn't be surprised if it was GO. The L3's aren't too good though.
ctmajka 115 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I think the open was made by G.O., and everything else was done in-house with elements made for the open. the L3's and bug are just awful.
Evening Magazine 18 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 I think the open was made by G.O., and everything else was done in-house with elements made for the open. the L3's and bug are just awful. GO could have made the fullscreen as well.
sfomspphl 518 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 KGO has a long 30+ year history of favoring in-house design more often than not -- and for most of those years in-house built sets. Should have left well enough alone with the old graphics. They were clean, forward thinking and classic.
Evening Magazine 18 Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 KGO has a long 30+ year history of favoring in-house design more often than not -- and for most of those years in-house built sets. Should have left well enough alone with the old graphics. They were clean, forward thinking and classic. Agreed, i'm not as big of a fan of in-house work as I used to be.
Vlad 347 Posted July 10, 2009 Posted July 10, 2009 Well I'm gonna take some excerpts from another thread I recently started about this, I had no idea we had a topic for this already, lol. Searching does help huh?, lol. Anyway I think it looks a lot like Giant Octopus as the opening Circle 7 Animation is just like WABC's animation, and also has very similar elements to WABC.. The Circle 7 logo, is also now very similar to KABC too with the ABC ball on the lower hand side of the Circle 7. It is also just as large as KABC's Circle 7 as well. Some elements (very few) look like WLS's Hothaus in a very minuscule way... I guess its because of the bug that they use, that has the orange wave and glow to it. WLS's bug is very similar too. Either way its kinda a good new refreshed look for them. Better than the plain look they had before, the newscast is still a bit "bland", I guess it doesn't have all of the fluff and hype like their sister down south does, I guess Northern California or "NorCal" is not as hip as SoCal, haha. KGO always gets right to the point (hard news) with their stories as opposed to KABC... Here is WABC's Open for a comparison: [yt]lgI4J5h7RMg[/yt] And now look at KGO's Open: [yt]ekYKpct_d6M[/yt] Very similar opens and elements, it really does look like a Giant Octopus intro at least, perhaps the L3s were done in house but the intro certainly looks like WABC's a bit... If you look at the two intros closely you'll see that there are several very similar elements, so the Lower Thirds perhaps may be done in house, but the intros are definitely Giant Octopus, lol.
ABCEyewitnessNews 0 Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 It's elements from the WLS package combined with elements from the WABC package with some KABC thrown in for spice. I have to ask - is that Al Vanik doing the voiceover? Al Vanik has never done any voiceover work for KGO. Richard Gebhardt has been KGO's voiceover since about 2004.
Hometown News 62 Posted October 6, 2009 Posted October 6, 2009 The L3's could use some more visual depth, because they look a little cartoonish. But the package as a whole looks great. Nice job by KGO.
newsguy22 59 Posted October 7, 2009 Posted October 7, 2009 i kinda like it. i agree... looks good to me. i don't see what all the fuss is about.
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